xacto knife work

recently, a friend of mine introduced me to this crafting knife called xacto knife.. after i got it from the US (was not available here :( ), started playing around with it.. to create this bamboo stencil....
actually the xacto knife is used in sheet metal work, it looks like it

My recent visit to Amirthapuri near Chingleput. My Sony Ericsson did a good job....

praying mantis

when i was gathering flowers from our garden, bang! jumped a mantis... it was very slender and freaked out if i'll eat it.. so was frantically trying to run away.. i helped it get back to the top of the plant again... where i snapped it in this shot


and then i found its big daddy or may be big mommy :)